The biggest, most prestigious race of the season in Late Model Stock competition is at Martinsville Speedway. We will post results and updates right here as available!
9:06 PM Carson Kvapil wins stage two and grabs an extra thousand bucks. Looney, Brown, Crum and McCarty are the top five. Lapcevich, Crews, Kelley, McKee and Bassett Jr complete the top ten. This will be another five minute break. 25 to go.
9:03 PM Trevor Ward slows and pulls it into the pit area. Crew is looking under the hood. He had radioed in that he may be blowing up earlier. He is done for the night.
8:59 PM Bobby McCarty may be one of the fastest cars on the track. He is up to the top five. Peyton Sellers has slipped out of the top ten in 11th.
8:55 PM Treyton Lapcevich is on the bottom side of Peyton Sellers and takes the position away. McCarty overtakes Sellers for sixth.
8:54 PM Jake Crum takes the fourth position from Peyton Sellers while Bobby McCarty takes the seventh position.
8:53 PM Carson Kvapil goes to the high line to take the lead from Mike Looney.
8:45 PM Kvapil is along the side of Looney. Looney is making the high line work. Mason Diaz loops it coming out of turn four to bring out another yellow. It is the sixth one of the night. Looney will be the leader at the restart. 131 laps of 200 in the books.
8:44 PM Carson Kvapil is on the bumper of Mike Looney. The mustard and pickle juice must be helping Carson. He can get to the door but cannot complete the pass.
8:37 PM Mike Looney assumes the point on the restart. Kvapil settles in second. Front two cars are pulling away from the field. Kade Brown is third but Peyton Sellers is on his outside with Jake Crum slithering around in fifth.
8:23 PM Mike Looney wins the first stage. The teams will have five minutes to make any adjustments to set them up for the next stage which is 75 laps long. Carson Kvapil, Kade Brown, Peyton Sellers and Treyton Lapcevich complete the top five. Jake Crum, Daniel Silvestri, Bobby McCarty, Trevor Ward and Brent Crews complete the top ten.
8:16 PM Restart to the race and Looney and Kvapil lead. Connor Hall made a pit stop during the caution and is now two laps down.
7:49 PM Big time crash on the front stretch. Many drivers involved. This started with Tristan McKee getting into Connor Hall on the front stretch. Jacob Heafner sailed over multiple cars. Everyone seems okay.
7:58 PM Mike Looney takes the lead from Kvapil on the high side.
7:51 PM Kyle Dudley shortly after restart, sees his magical night come to an end. He crashes out in turns three and four. 123 to go. Matt Waltz has pitted again with more damage than what he had after the previous incident. He looks done for the night. The two were close together on the track for the last caution so we are not sure if this was a continuation of that incident.
7:43 PM Kyle Dudley who won the pole for this event, spins in turn two while running in sixth. 131 to go.
7:38 PM Stuart Crews get driven up the track and loses a ton of positions. He's back to 32nd. Mike Looney looks to get by Carson Kvapil and the two are side by side. Kvapil is making the outside line work with Looney being on the bottom. 140 to go.
7:36 PM Jason York has retired from the event due to mechanical issues. A restart is coming with 147 to go.
7:31 PM Buddy Isles Jr stalls coming out of turn four to bring the first caution of the night. Isles was running in the top ten at the time after running so well in his heat race nearly winning it. Isles is back under power. 152 to go.
7:29 PM Mike Looney is closing in on Kvapil's bumper as they continue to move through lapped traffic. 155 to go.
7:27 PM Mike Looney moves up to the second position. Connor Hall has settled to the eighth position. Kvapil has lapped Doug Barnes Jr and Jason York along with Davey Callihan. Dillon Harville is the next person to get a lap down.
7:25 PM Carson Kvapil becomes the third different leader of the event. He has pulled away to over a three car length lead. Lapping has begun as Andrew Grady goes a lap down. Landon Pembleton also goes a lap down.
7:23 PM Peyton Sellers and Kyle Dudley are battling for the lead. Sellers takes the lead on lap 27. Carson Kvapil is lurking for the second position and will take it.
7:22 PM Connor Hall appears to have a problem where he is slightly off the pace. He is back to tenth place. Peyton Sellers is up to a car length behind Dudley for the lead.
7:14 PM The field gets the green flag to begin the feature. Kyle Dudley leads the first lap and pulls away from Peyton Sellers and Carson Kvapil who battle side by side for second.
7:08 PM Field rolls off the front stretch for the beginning of their pace laps.
4:56 PM Connor Hall pulls away from Pulliam to take the heat race win. Behind him. Ryan Matthews gets into Davey Callihan off the final corner and just barely holds him off to earn himself the 40th starting spot in the main event. Stacy Puryear, Jake Crum, Tristan McKee, Sam Yarborough, Jared Fryar, Aaron Donnelly, Clay Jones all advance to the feature along with Hall, Pulliam and Matthews as mentioned already. Calihan, Zach Dabbs, Anthony Adams, Jason Myers, GR Waldrop, Mullins, Ryan Wilson and Austin Somero fail to advance.
4:55 Connor Hall and Lee Pulliam battle side by side for the lead. Pulliam gets by Hall briefly on the high line but Hall is still in control by half a car length. This brings the top 10 essentially under a blanket with 3 to go.
4:51 PM Jimmy Mullins gets into the back of Aaron Donnelly on the restart which causes damage to Jason Myer's. The yellow is out with 7 laps to go.
4:48 PM Anthony Adams spins in turn four and brings out a yellow. 7 laps to go and Calihan's advantage goes away over Mullins. Hall still leads.
4:46 PM Connor Hall is the leader over Puryear with 10 to go. Pulliam is third. Jake Crum gets by Yarborough for fourth. Fryar, McKee, Clay Jones, Aaron Donnely and Davey Calihan complete the top ten. Jimmy Mullins in 11th but is a second behind Calihan.
4:40 PM Ryan Matthews spins off the bumper of Tristan Mckee and somehow, no one hits him. Caution comes out.
4:37 PM Stacy Puryear and Connor Hall lead the field to the green for the last heat race. Hall and Puryear are still side by side after lap one until Hall settles into second.
4:31 PM Peyton Sellers wins the third heat. Mike Looney, Kade Brown, Casey Kelley, Brent Crews, Conner Jones, Trevor Ward, Dexter Canipe Jr, Jason York and Doug Barnes Jr complete the top ten and will make the feature. Derrick Lancaster, Thomas Scott, Chase Burrow, Jacob Borst, Brandon Pierce, Jessica Cann, Justin Hicks and Jamie York will not race tonight.
4:30 PM "It's a crying shame that it's 20 fucking 24 and we're missing shifts in Late Model Stock Car racing" Brandon Pierce is extremely frustrated in what has been perhaps the toughest stretch of racing in his career.
4:24 PM The heat re-starts and Casey Kelley appeared to miss a shift or something of that nature. It stacks up the field and Brandon Pierce, Thomas Scott, Doug Barnes Jr and Jessica Cann all suffer damage. Pierce and Cann get the worst end of it. Trevor Ward misses the crash and finds himself back in the main feature as of this moment.
4:19 PM Race is back under yellow. Trevor Ward is now back on the lead lap. He was only penalized two laps not three as originally reported. 8 to go.
4:10 PM Jacob Borst and Chase Burrow crash hard on the back stretch. They are done for the day. Burrow lost a motor in a big way and Borst had no where to go and nailed him in the rear. Red flag.
4:09 PM Peyton Sellers gets by Kade Brown for the lead in heat race number three. Looney is thred with Casey Kelley and Brent Crews fifth. Chase Burrow has dropped to sixth. The transfer position has Jason York and Dexter Canipe jr beating and banging for the spot. York has the advantage. 8 to go.
4:04 PM Brandon Pierce who had made his way to the transfer spot loses it in turn three to bring the yellow. How no one hit him, we will never know. Kade Brown leads with Peyton Sellers, Chase Burrow, Mike Looney and Casey Kelley the top five. Trevor Ward gets one of his laps back.
4:02 PM Trevor Ward is black flagged for jumping the start. He stopped on the track to bring out the yellow. He is being held in the pit area. This will crush any type of hope of repeating as the race winner. He has been released from his pit but is now three laps down.
3:57 PM Andrew Grady tells the media that his dad tried for many years to make this race and this is the first time a Grady has made this event.
3:49 PM Kvapil gets by Isles on the white flag lap and holds him off to win the heat. Silvestri, Matt Waltz, Timothy Peters, Carter Langley, Mason Diaz, Dillon Harville, Blake Stallings and Andrew Grady all advance. Bruce Anderson, Landon Huffman, Riley Neal, Chandler Sherman, Keith Helton, Boo Boo Dalton, Landon S Huffman, Robert Arch and Dylan Newsome fail to qualify for the feature.
3:47 PM Carson Kvapil has caught Buddy Isles Jr with 5 to go. He's all over his rear bumper but Isles is able to hold him off on the top lane. Lots of give and take here as both cars are loose.
3:46 PM Andrew Grady is holding down the transfer spot Riley Neal, Chandler Sherman are side by side for 11th. Anderson gets sideways but saves it. Bruce Anderson has clawed back up to 13th. Riley and Sherman make slight contact and this is allowing Grady to pull away.
3:45 PM Carson Kvapil has a great race car and has thought about making it three wide on the restarts. This may something to watch later on in the feature. He's in second ahead of Daniel Silvestri.
3:40 PM Dylan Newsome gets into the curb and it knocks his car into Boo Boo Dalton's car. Boo Boo was not happy with Newsome. Ahead of them, Bruce Anderson spins for a third time. At the front before this took place, Carson Kvapil thought about making it three wide but he did not. Buddy Isles Jr is still in front of the field. 15 to go.
3:34 PM Carter Langley gets sideways causes drivers to stack up. Matt Waltz hits the wall but no major damage. Landon S Huffman and Andrew Grady have banged fenders multiple times while Mason Diaz and Grady have had their issues on the track. Bruce Anderson spins off the bumper of S Huffman for the caution.
3:31 PM Landon S Huffman loses his hood after making contact with Andrew Grady who had made contact with Mason Diaz in turn one. This brings out the second caution. 20 laps to go. This saves a black flag from coming out for Huffman if the hood hadn't had come off.
3:28 PM Landon Huffman and Landon S Huffman bang fenders towards the back half of the top ten.
3:26 PM Bruce Anderson spins in turn four to bring out the caution immediately in the second heat. He was three wide with both Landon Huffman's when the 57 got into him.
3:16 PM Dylan Ward tried everything he could do to get by Landon Pembelton but couldn't control his loose race car. Pembleton holds him off.
Kyle Dudley leads every lap to win the first heat race and the pole for the feature. Stuart Crews, Treyton Lapcevich, Ryan Millington, Camden Gullie, Bobby McCarty, Ronnie Bassett Jr, Jacob Heafner, Eatmon and Pembelton complete the top ten and they will race later tonight.
Dylan Ward, Steve Zacharias, Harrison, Matt Wertz, Karl Budzevski, Connor Branch, Trey Williams, Tony Housman and Satterfield fail to advance.
3:15 PM Taylor Satterfield has a problem and makes an unscheduled spot. Eatmon puts the bumper to Landon Pembelton. for ninth.
3:13 PM 10 laps to go in the first heat. Top ten remains in place. Jacob Heafner is pressuring Landon Pembelton for the 8th spot. Parker Eatmon is still holding down the tenth spot.
3:11 PM 14 laps to go in the first heat. Dylan Ward is gaining on Parker Eatmon for the transfer spot. Harrison is drifting backwards. Ryan Millington gives up the third spot to fellow CARS Tour winner Treyton Lapcevich.
3:08 PM 19 laps to go in the first heat race. Parker Eatmon has the transfer spot. He is driving away from Dylan Ward and Blayne Harrison who are battling for 11th.
3:00 PM Here are the heat race lineups. Kyle Dudley, Buddy Isles Jr, Kade Brown and Stacy Puryear are the pole winners for the heats.
1:28 PM Carter Langley and Connor Hall are the last two qualifiers. Langley's first lap is only good for 30th while Hall's lap is 19th. Langley comes back to grab the 13th fastest spot and Hall jumps to P8. Kyle Dudley wins the fastest lap award and $5,000 from the speedway.
1:26 PM Lee Pulliam and Carson Kvapil complete their laps. Pulliam puts it P10 while Kvapil is good for P6.
1:25 PM Kade Brown and defending Valley Star 300 Champion Trevor Ward posts their laps. Brown swings it off turn four for a lap good enough for P3 while Ward puts it P6.
1:24 PM 2021 Pole winner Daniel Silvestri goes P6 on the board with a lap of 20.176. Blake Stallings who won the track championship at Ace puts it P28
1:21 PM We have a new fast qualifier. Kyle Dudley posts a lap of 20.080 which is the first one to hit that category. Mike Looney posts a lap good for P6. Ryan Millington is on the track and he's good for fifth while Stuart Crews is good for fourth. Track is getting quicker and these later guys are going to be fast judging off their practice times.
1:19 PM Two tenths of a second separate the top 20 qualifiers. 2022 winner Peyton Sellers posted a lap good enough for P8. Dillon Harville is P7 and the veteran Stacy Puryear posts a lap good enough for P2!
1:16 PM Former two time winner Timothy Peters and Dylan Ward make their runs. Peters is 13th while Ward is 16th.
1:15 PM Bobby McCarty and Landon Pembelton posts their laps. McCarty is 7th and Pembelton is 10th.
1:13 PM Buddy Isles Jr goes to P1. He puts a fastest lap of 20.112 which was on his second lap. Casey Kelley and Mason Diaz posted their attempts as well and are P8 and P9.
1:07 PM Andrew Grady posts his machine 11th fastest. Conner Jones was 21st. Davey Callihan and Jared Fryar are making their qualifying laps. Callihan is 23rd and Fryar is P5.
1:04 PM Jacob Borst and Camden Gullie make their runs. Gullie is up to fourth while Borst is up to P7. 38 cars have made their laps.
1:01 PM Chase Burrow puts a 20:180 on the board to be the new bench mark. Treyton Lapcevich is seocond. Mark Waltz is fourth. Ryan Wilson and Justin Hicks went out and posted laps good for 5th and 7th. 2024 champion from Wake County Speedway Clay Jones is 6th.
12:57 PM: Sam Yarbrough is the new fastest qualifier. Former winner Jason York is now third behind Heafner. Riley Neal has also made his lap and is ninth fastest.
12:55 PM: Jacob Heafner posts the new fastest time of the session with a 20:43.
12:52 PM: Landon Huffman posts his number 57 machine for Carroll Speedshop P1 so far. Donnelly is second, Mark Wertz who won the pole for this year's Hampton Heat is third fastest. Bruce Anderson is in fourth driving Landon Pembelton's normal ride. Blayne Harrison who has cut his teeth on some Virginia tracks is fifth.
12:48 PM Ross Boo Boo Dalton is on the track. Jason Myers is next. Local driver Karl Budzevski and Thomas Scott have made times. Dalton posts the 8th fastest time while Myers posts the 14th fastest time.
12:48 PM Aaron Donnelly who is driving for Hettinger Racing posts a 20.379 to take the provisional fastest time.
12:46 PM Landon S Huffman for Pinnacle Racing has posted the top spot so far out of 12 cars. Waldrop still in 2nd as Florence Motor Speedway Promoter Steve Zacharias is third.
12:42 PM Robert Arch makes his lap and the Jersey Mikes machine of GR Waldrop makes his lap and it is good for P1. Williams in 2nd.
12:38 PM: The first car has hit the track for qualifying in Connor Branch. Tony Housman, Jessica Cann and Trey Williams were the next drivers out.